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Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$430k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$140
Largest grant, FY2024
$175,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$255k3%
FY202333$104k24%
FY202231$109k13%
FY202127$60k4%
FY202027$87k11%
FY201924$50k17%
FY201823$41k30%
FY201722$30kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.5MHealth$396kPhilanthropy$185kEnvironment$16kArts & Culture$4kAnimals$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kReligion$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
MO
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$300,00060%
Perkins School for the Blind$160,00080%
Concord Academy$87,50080%
Washington University$30,00060%
Northfield Mount Hermon School$27,05070%
Wellesley College$11,00080%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$8,0508n/a
Clean Water Fund$6,60070%
Keren or Inc$5,00010%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$1,98080%
Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($88k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Academy: $87,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorthfield Mount Hermon School: $27,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetClean Water Fund: $6,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKeren or Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $1,980 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDover Land Conservation Trust: $1,550 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWeston Historical Society Inc: $1,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBrown Hillel Foundation: $1,130 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $1,090 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Book Festival Inc: $1,070 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $995 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBarnstable Land Trust Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dover Police Association: $600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLand's Sake Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedfield Animal Shelter Inc: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDover Historical Society: $500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNative Plant Trust Inc: $460 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Working Group: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston College: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCharles River Association for Retarded Citizens Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLast Mile Health: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdolescent Consultation Services Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Free School: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDover Firefighter's Relief Fund: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonterey Museum of Art: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust

How much does Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust give?
Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust reported 31 grants totaling $430,195 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Health (13%), Philanthropy (6%).
Who are Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc ($300k), Perkins School for the Blind ($160k), Concord Academy ($88k).
Does Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Cambridge Foundation, American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc.
Where is Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust based?
Howard & Robin Reisman Charitable Trust is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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